Kendrick Lamar’s pgLang partners with Global Citizen to establish an African touring circuit

Drake has surpassed Kendrick Lamar with his recent ‘It’s All A Blur’ tour becoming the highest-grossing rap tour ever.Last year, Lamar toured the world in support of his Grammy Award-winning fifth album ‘Mr Morale & The Big Steppers’. The ‘Big Steppers tour’ ended in September 2022 and earned $110.9million (£89,248,704.66) from 929,000 tickets sold across 73 shows – making it the highest-grossing rap tour at the time.This summer, Drake team up with fellow rapper 21 Savage to tour North America in support of their Grammy Award-nominated collaborative album ‘Her Loss’.

Heather Morris is opening up about her murder mystery podcast, her former Glee costars, and Beyoncé and Taylor Swift!

EXCLUSIVE: The Titmouse Foundation, the nonprofit created by the team behind the powerhouse animation studio Titmouse (Big Mouth, Venture Bros., Beavis and Butt-Head, The Legend of Vox Machina), in partnership with Warrior Art Camphas a new scholarship course that enables equitable education for animators looking to advance their careers.

Khloe Kardashian glammed up for a night of holiday shopping and she put some skin on display at the event!

EXCLUSIVE: The Jackson Hole International Film Festival will debut December 8 to 10 in Jackson, WY, via a new partnership with the Hamptons International Film Festival.

Naman Ramachandran “Sherlock” Seasons 1-4, “Death in Paradise” Seasons 1-11, “Unforgotten” Seasons 1-4 and “Life Below Zero” Seasons 1-9 are among the series that will be available as part of BBC Studios‘ new content agreement with Lemino, a Japanese video-on-demand streaming service operated by NTT DoCoMo. The deal, which comes into effect Nov.

Tubi announced a first-of-its-kind partnership with the Black List on the To Be Commissioned Initiative to provide both emerging and established writers with the opportunity to submit their screenplays intended to be developed, produced and distributed by Tubi. Tubi is commissioning five scripts that speak to young, diverse audiences that fit into one of the following genres: Sci-Fi, Faith, Comedy, Romance and Wild Card (any genre) which allows for the inclusion of a great script that may not fall within the other specified genres. Writers can submit their entries by visiting HERE beginning today and the submission program will run through March 15, 2024.

Tyler, The Creator was joined by Kendrick Lamar and Baby Keem last night (November 11) for the live debut of ‘The Hillbillies’.Earlier this year, Lamar and Baby Keem surprised their fans with ‘The Hillbillies’, a new drill-inspired song that sampled Bon Iver. The single was the pair’s tenth collaboration together, following the Grammy-winning ‘Family Ties’ and 2021’s ‘Range Brothers’ and ‘Vent’.In the video for the song, there was also a cameo from Tyler, The Creator, who flashes a button to the camera at one point that reads “Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival 2023” – the first unofficial announcement that Lamar and Keem would appear Tyler’s annual LA festival.That proved true last night when all three arrived on stage for a rendition of the track.

Brady United is collaborating with more than 200 working mothers in the entertainment industry on a new campaign called #FiredUp, urging that Hollywood include more depictions of gun safety in scripts.

PinkPantheress accidentally missed an important text from Kendrick Lamar while she was on a movie date. In a recent cover interview with i-D, the U.K.

PinkPantheress has revealed that she missed a chance to feature on a Kendrick Lamar track because her phone was on silent.The UK singer-songwriter was speaking in a new interview when she explained that she missed out on a studio session with the ‘Humble’ rapper because she was on a date in the cinema, so she missed the notification.“I’m not trying to date, even though I love dating,” she told iD magazine. She went on to share how she “nearly” featured on a track with Lamar, but missed the studio session after her date had asked that she put her phone in silent during the film.“Oh fuck, I can’t even think about it,” she said.

BreAnna Bell United Talent Agency has partnered with longtime TV executive Nick Emmerson, investing in his newly launched unscripted studio, Headers and Volleys Entertainment, Variety has learned exclusively. UTA continues to rep Emmerson in the US. Based in Brighton and London, UK, HAVE will focus on creating and producing unscripted content for the UK, the international SVODs and the US market, with several projects currently in development.

Kendrick Lamar has been announced as the headliner of a new festival called Move Afrika: Rwanda.The US rapper and singer will headline the event on December 6 BK Arena in the capital of Kigali, as part of a new touring series organised by Global Citizen and Lamar and Dave Free’s company, pgLang.According to Global Citizen, the debut event is the opening of a “first-of-its-kind music tour across the continent of Africa”, with more regional artists set to be announced on the bill. The event is the first in a “five-year effort that aims to promote health and equity, defend our planet, and create jobs and economic opportunity”.A limited number of tickets are available to purchase here.Can’t talk, still in shock from the news that @kendricklamar will be headlining Move Afrika: Rwanda on Dec.

PinkPantheress is opening up about the time she missed out on a huge opportunity!

For almost as long as Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole have had major record deals, a very vocal and persistent portion of their fanbases have been asking them to collaborate on a full-length album. During an appearance on Lil Yachty's very funny podcast A Safe Place, Cole once and for all let the world know: it doesn't exist and probably won't ever be made, since the two artists "put it to bed years ago." Cole says that the prospect of the album was real "for a second" very early on Lamar's career.

J. Cole has revealed that his rumoured Kendrick Lamar collab album was in fact “real”.A joint album between the pair had been reported since 2010, and managed to join forces on 2013 track ‘Forbidden Fruit’. However, in 2018, J.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Leading Saudi advertising and live events company Alamiya has moved into film production by acquiring start up shingle Lyra Pictures, co-founded by experienced media exec Wesam Kattan, who was part of the Viacom team that launched MTV Arabia. Alamiya was founded in 1976 as the first film and TV studio in the kingdom, but was forced to change its business plan in the early 1980s due to the ban on cinema forced by religious conservatives.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The philanthropic organization Global Citizen is teaming up with Kendrick Lamar and Dave Free’s company, pgLang, in an ambitious effort to establish a major music touring circuit across Africa. A kickoff event, “Move Afrika: Rwanda,” will take place Dec. 6 with the hip-hop superstar as the headliner.

IMAX is continuing its expansion drive, this time in Australia and Germany via an agreement with Oz-based exhibitor EVT for five new state-of-the-art IMAX with Laser systems in the two markets. Under the deal, EVT will integrate a new IMAX screen in an Event Cinemas location in Sydney, as well as at four CineStar locations in Germany.

Kendrick Lamar has announced a limited edition pgLang mobile phone.The new device has been developed through Lamar and Dave Free’s company, pgLang, and comes in collaboration with the technology company Light.News of the device arrived yesterday (October 30), when the company dropped a new teaser for the launch online.